The 16 Year War In Afghanistan – Headlines Tell The Story

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Since 2001 the US has been at War in Afghanistan – the longest war in US history. Headlines concisely tell the story of this cruel boomeranging quagmire of human violence and misery. Below are some newspaper headlines from 2010 to the present to show that a militarized foreign policy without Congress exercising its Constitutional duties and steadfast public engagement will drift on, costing our soldiers’ lives and limbs, nearly three-quarters of a trillion taxpayer dollars, hundreds of thousands of Afghani lives and millions of refugees, with no end in sight.

No mention of those poppy fields? William Blum reminded us recently with a comprehensive list Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)

New threat to Venezuela. The real dictator is the profit seeker US of Inverted Totalitarianism. People for profits all funded by the US tax payer. That’s allot of wasted tax dollars with $20T debt. Banker’s Wars.

Robert H. Stiver

Good sleuthing and itemization by the Nader team to remind us of the tragic folly of this misadventure among too many misadventures!

(Re Bill Blum’s listing, provided below by Jed Grover, it’s good. But I see nothing about the US evil “entangling alliance” with the Zionist entity so-called Israel as that “alliance,” e.g., (i) worked to thwart budding nationalism and movements toward statehood in Palestine in 1947-onward and (ii) undertook periodic invasions of and myriad violations of the sovereignty of Lebanon along the intended path of “full spectrum dominance” by the Zionist enterprise. [Also Ethiopia: haven’t we meddled there in the not-so-distant past? Sudan? Eritrea?])

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